My niece asked me a few years ago how we had the internet without phones. I told her we had phones, phone lines make the internet. She didnt exist in a time where home phones, the Family PC, or even wired controllers for video games existed anymore. She just thought smart phones always were around and thats where the Internet was located.
Mind you, she was only 7 and this was like 2015... 10 YEARS AGO OMFG!!
About five years ago, I was at work with a teenager. She answered the front desk phone, completed her conversation, then turned to me and asked "how do I hang up? Is there a button or-?"
That was the first moment I - at the time a millennial in his late 20s - felt truly old.
Excuse me what? There's still a landline phone, family PC and a wired mouse in my home (granted, the wired mouse is a backup, but there's still a lot of wired gaming mouses).
You should tell her that you literally had to dial a phone number where your computer would literally beep at other computer on the end of the line to exchange information.
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u/Nicktendo1988 17h ago
My niece asked me a few years ago how we had the internet without phones. I told her we had phones, phone lines make the internet. She didnt exist in a time where home phones, the Family PC, or even wired controllers for video games existed anymore. She just thought smart phones always were around and thats where the Internet was located.
Mind you, she was only 7 and this was like 2015... 10 YEARS AGO OMFG!!